IEXPLORE caused a general protection fault

[howie2424]

I've been having this annoying little problem with W98SE and IE 5.5. When surfing the net I constantly get this message.

IEXPLORE caused a general protection fault
in module USER.EXE at 001c:000013b8.
Registers:
EAX=00020000 CS=16af EIP=000013b8 EFLGS=00000202
EBX=17872044 SS=5047 ESP=000083d4 EBP=000083e2
ECX=0002050c DS=167f ESI=33542044 FS=11ff
EDX=00000002 ES=167f EDI=00003354 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
67 8b 5e 08 67 8b 7e 0a 3b d9 75 04 3b fa 74 dc
Stack dump:
11ff0187 01870000 bff70000 842c0002 01b70028 07340002 00000409 00000000 026f68f0 ffffffff 03a1f510 ffffffff bff77284 bff53724 03a17000 03a1f510


IE shuts down and restarts but 15 minutes later I get the same message. I searched this forum and saw one post about this issue but the guy eventually gave up and bought XP. I can't find much helpful info at Microsoft's site either. Any suggestions? Thanks.

[ssahl]

Try deleting everything in your 'temperary internet files' folder. Also you may want to check and see if you have any other programs that are running you dont need when your surfing. You can do this by just hitting ctrl>alt>del and see what's running. general protection fault is normally a memory problem because of some kind of software conflict. You can also use 'msconfig' and uncheck any programs you dont need to load up when you boot your computer, they will still work just they (any you may uncheck) dont load up when you start your computer.

[howie2424]

removed a couple programs from the systems tray and things seem to be fine now. Thanks very much for the tip. Much appreciated. Now if I could just solve my sound card trouble I'd be content but I'll take that one to the appropriate board, thanks again.